Two new birds

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Philter4

Country/State : Back and forth between East and West coast of the U.S.A.Age : 52Joined : 2010-03-30Posts : 1418

Subject: Two new birds Sun Jan 08, 2012 4:25 am

I have been working on a couple of birds recently, I started when I returned from Hawaii but have not had the time to work on them exclusively so it has taken me quite a while for a pair of such small figures.

I wanted something different so I decided to make a white cheeked hornbill for my African diorama. It is a large bird so in scale it was not so small that I couldn't give some details. The other bird I decided to make is an Egyptian vulture. I love Ana's palm nut vultures, they are among my favorite sculptures she has done for me. Egyptian vultures are very similar, they are just a little larger, have a slightly different color pattern and feed on fish and small live animals with carrion being a small portion of the diet. They also range all over Africa and India so I can keep the palm nut vultures on the African dio and the Egyptian vulture can go in India.

With my new camera this is the best photo I have of them. As with all of my figures they are in 1:22 and I put them next to Ana's palm nut vulture and Harriet's gemsbok for a size comparison. [You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]

Ana

Country/State : come from Poland now live in The NetherlandsAge : 31Joined : 2010-04-01Posts : 9772

Subject: Re: Two new birds Sun Jan 08, 2012 5:28 am

Wonderful works! Very tiny and very well done! Congratulations Phil! I love especially Egyptian vulture Thank You for sharing photo with us :)

I'll try but with the camera I have now when I try to get a closer photo it just washes them out. I may be able to get a good photo and use PhotoShop to enlarge the birds with the edit program.

I have just finished the rough sculpt of a male white cheeked hornbill to match the female in the photo. As a species they have the same color pattern the males are just a little bigger, a lot bulkier and have a larger casque. I'll post more photos as soon as he is finished and I'll work on a close up of them at the same time.